Meta fined €265M for allowing scrapers to steal Facebook’s centralized user data

Meta fined €265M for allowing scrapers to steal Facebook’s centralized user data

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Nov. 28 that it has fined Facebook developer Meta €265m for breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Specifically, the commission stated that it had fined Meta for failing to design Facebook in such a way that it would protect users from data breaches. [...]